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Finally scientists have confirmed what we saw coming from 6,000 miles away: pacific bluefin tuna are now contaminated with significant amounts of radioactive cesium and who-knows-what other isotopes.

Testing of bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California revealed that every one tested contained radiocesium in concentrations as much as 10bq/kq. To put that number in perspective, 100bq/kg would be considered low-level radioactive waste under U.S. environmental law and require special disposal. So, it’s only 10% as bad as officially radioactive waste. Yum!

The numbers are truly shocking. Some of the higher ones would qualify as high-level radioactive waste.

These tuna almost certainly were born off the coast of Japan and recently migrated to the U.S. west coast. The really bad news is that scientists expect the levels to get worse over the next year as tuna that have spent longer in Japanese waters continue to migrate across the pacific.

The glowing sushi jokes that have been circulating for over a year weren’t funny when they started and still aren’t – not because they are inappropriate (they are inappropriate), I just haven’t heard a good one yet. Maybe the radiation has rotted our sense of humor…

At this point, unfortunately it isn’t just the jokes that stink.

It appears that 200 metric tons of sardines have washed up on the shore in Chiba Prefecture, and the odor can be smelled quite a distance from the port. Strange fish kills have been on the rise for years due to the havoc humans have been wreaking on the environment, but the proximity to the largest industrial accident in the history of the world is definitely suggestive of a cause.

Here is a picture of the port, that’s not sand, those are dead fish and that is blood in the water:

Less than a week after that, Mochizuki at Fukushima Diary reports about a similar occurrence – quite a ways away from Chiba in Kanagwa prefecture, along with this photo:

While Fukushima has certainly brought the issue of radioactive fish to the forefront, such contaminated fish have been a fact of life for some time.In August, 2011 Reuters reported that Strontium 90 was found in fish caught in the Connecticut River downstream from the aging Vermont Yankee nuclear waste generating station.

Radioactivity continues to be a significant problem in the Baltic Sea nearly 30 years after the Chernobyl accident. In addition to the Chernobyl legacy, a number of nuclear plants continue to release radioactivity into the Baltic.

The Irish Sea has it’s own problem with radioactivity. The Sellafield site has two retired reactors but still functions as a used fuel reprocessing plant and nuclear waste storage site. Sellafield has been continuously leaking radiation into the Irish Sea since 1952. The following chart, from NoNuclear.SE shows Cesium in fish almost twice as radioactive as the Bluefin Tuna caught off the coast of San Diego:

News media both in Japan and worldwide have parroted the line that the ocean will dilute the radionuclides to insignificant numbers. But history clearly shows that radionuclides persist in the marine environment and accumulate in food chains to a significant degree for a very, very long time. Dilution isn’t a very assuring idea, when there are 439 nuclear reactors around the world, all of them releasing radioactivity in the environment!

What You Can Do:

This blog is loaded with info on how to protect yourself from radiation. If you haven’t already, I highly suggest reading my posts on Probiotics,Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Pectin, and check out the archives as well.

In addition, I encourage you to limit your intake of seafood, especially from the Pacific. Avoid larger predatory fish, such as tuna or shark that tend to bioaccumulate toxic elements. This list describes which fish to avoid in order to decrease mercury exposure, and similar principles should apply with radionuclides.

I also encourage you to practice anti-nuclear activism and make personal choices that decrease our dependency on nuclear power.

This is a very good video covering the radioprotective qualities of Vitamin C as well as some of the social and political issues, including the resistance by the Japanese government to care for their citizens.

What must we do?

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Vitamin C:This antioxidant is effective against radiation. Radioactive atoms (radionuclides) have missing electrons that they replace by stealing electrons from other atoms causing cellular and DNA damage. That’s oxidation in a nutshell. An antioxidant gives those atoms the electrons they need, thus neutralizing oxidative stress.

It’s not easy swallowing 10 grams total of ascorbic acid at intervals daily. Injected C or IV C is hard to come by. Here’s a way to maximize cellular absorption of vitamin C without force feeding to the point of diarrhea or injection and IV intake –check out the sources(http://www.naturalnews.com/034591_vitamin_C_mega-dose_healing.html).

Vitamin D3:Make sure you supplement with vitamin D3, not just D or D2. Despite conventional dermatology’s advice, strong sunlight exposure to skin is the safest way to up your D3 blood levels. Despite conventional medicine’s standard, 25(OH)D tested D3 levels at 20 nanograms/milliliter are not enough; 50 to 70 ng/mg would be optimum.

Other neutralizing supplements should include iodine or potassium iodide. Most of us are iodine deficient. Potassium itself works well at inhibiting radionuclides. The sleep supplement melatonin protects against radiation.

Sulfur supplements are recommended, and bicarbonate of soda is also effective at neutralizing radiation in our organs.

Magnesium intake should be increased along with calcium; both are effective at protecting against radiation poisoning.

Superfoods, chlorella and spirulina, have actually been used effectively where radioactive leaks occurred. Kelp is another possibility.

Bentonite clay or zeolite may help rid radionuclides from internal tissues.

Ionizing radiation is defined by the ability to cause electrons to break off from molecules. Some of the ionization will happen directly to your tissues. Some will create electron-hungry free radicals, which then go looking for electrons and usually get them by binding with tissues (oxidation), causing further damage. The greatest concern is when the damage happens to DNA, leading to breaks in the DNA that can eventually lead to cancer. Anti-oxidants come in handy because they supply extra electrons to the body, thus neutralizing those electron-hungry free radicals.

Thus, anti-oxidants are one of the first lines of defense for those exposed to very high levels of ionizing radiation. Vitamins A, C and E are commonly used for acute radiation exposure. However, it must be noted that there are thousands of different antioxidants that occur naturally in foods such as fruits, vegetables and particularly herbs.

Vitamin C is considered one of the premier radioprotective anti-oxidants. Vitamin C is relatively cost-effective. But what makes Vitamin C the champion of anti-oxidants is that it is non-toxic even at extreme doses, which may be necessary when there is life-threatening illness or toxicity.

At high doses of oral vitamin C, the worst side effect is that people may begin to experience diarrhea. This is not dangerous, and simply means they need to back off a little bit on the dosage. Much larger doses of vitamin C can be tolerated via intravenous solution.

There is also a relatively new form of vitamin C called ‘lyposomal’ vitamin C which is taken orally, but boasts cellular absorption rates that are many multiples better than even intravenous treatment.

The following video is an excellent introduction to Vitamin C as a treatment for radiation-induced illness and how Vitamin C can help to prevent or repair DNA damage:

Vitamin C has also been demonstrated to have anti-cancer effects, separate from it’s radioprotective qualities. The following video with Dr. Thomas Levy goes into Vitamin C as a cancer treatment, as well as giving a background on why anti-oxidants are so important for human health generally.

Below are a series of videos that give a large amount of information on vitamin c and its role in detoxification that go way beyond radioprotection:

This is the dramatic story of a man who was terminally ill with swine flu who recovered due to vitamin c: